As I mentioned in class, I just finished Perez’s Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (2019). Perez cites some of the kinds of research we read for last week in her book. She talks about how problematic many research methods are regarding everything from city planning to medical research. So many […]
The readings that we have done so far have demonstrated that data is very much subject to both present and historical biases and as such cannot be taken at face value, nor even be considered reliable and ethical. Lara Putnam, in her article “The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast” […]
The readings of the past two weeks have defined digital humanities and outlined the ways this field can uphold or challenge colonialism and sexism through careful contextualization of data (Risam 2018), collaborative stewardship (Christen 2018), and critical reflection on the histories of constructed categories of data (Aronova et al. 2017; Noble 2018; Radin 2017). In […]
The first two weeks of class and readings have illuminated upon several of the course’s objective learning statements and thematic questions. In particular, many of the articles focused on how information flows in and out of socio-technical systems and the ways that researchers access, arrange, organize, and describe information. Safiya Umoja Noble’s Algorithms of Oppression […]
In the readings for our first two overview weeks, I was most interested in the ways in which power and privilege both have structured and are evident in systems of classification and in representation and misrepresentation. For my response, I will consider the discussion of these themes in our readings by Safiya Umoja Noble and […]
In the readings for our first two overview weeks, I was most interested in the ways in which power and privilege both have structured and are evident in systems of classification and in representation and misrepresentation. For my response, I will consider the discussion of these themes in our readings by Safiya Umoja Noble and […]
Last year, when I was helping a little bit with the metadata for the manuscripts included on the Italian Paleography website at the Newberry, which I mentioned earlier, I was laughing a little bit at how specific some of the Library of Congress subject headings were and how lacking in specificity were others. As I […]
Aronova, von Oertzen, and Sepkoski’s “Introduction” provides a comprehensive foundation from which to discuss Big Data, computers, and science. In their writing, they reflect critically on the legal, ethical, and political implications of today’s information technologies and the high value it places on data. They ask, then, “what is the source of the new value?”[1] […]
Bonjour, my name is Arushi Sahai. I am a second-year PhD student in History of Art and Architecture Department. My area of interest is Indian Modern Architecture though in future years I hope to expand and learn about Modern Architecture of developing countries similar to India. My goal for the class is to be interdisciplinary […]